The Sessions (2012)

Name: The Sessions
Released: 2012
Rating: 7.7
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks

• Movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

• 95 min

6.9

The festival hit of the year!

Directed by: Ben Lewin
Casting: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, Adam Arkin, Rhea Perlman, W. Earl Brown, Robin Weigert, Blake Lindsley, Ming Lo, Rusty Schwimmer, Jennifer Kumiyama, Tobias Forrest, Jarrod Bailey, James Martinez, Paul MacLean, Phoebe Lewin, Jonathan Hanrahan, Jason Jack Edwards, J. Teddy Garces, Daniel Quinn, B.J. Clinkscales, Gina-Raye Carter
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 2012-05-02
Status: Released

Tags: virgin, cat, narration, wheelchair, affectation, graduation, based on true story, sexual arousal, judaism, power outage, catholic church, sexual awakening, male virgin, sponge bath, catholic priest, jealous husband, iron lung, sex surrogate, polio, polio victim, sexual pleasure, handicap sex, angry, zealous, unassuming, anxious, understated, sentimental, whimsical, admiring, adoring, amused, straightforward, sympathetic, tragic, vibrant

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.